Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

But I reckon that this realm of higher needs, of something more than just forgetting about everyday life, of mere recreation, this realm of needs has been clearly neglected by us.

It's our Christian duty to offer spiritual worship to God that engages our minds, stirs our hearts & flows from our lips

To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius

Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets

Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

When your friends have done right by you, you do right by them.

It's hard to find a girl with a heart of gold, when you're living in a four letter world.